EZ GIF: http://www.ezgif.com — Allows you to make GIFs from images or videos as well as optimize GIFs, jpgs, and pngs. Alexa: 4,776 in October 2017.

Flixel: http://www.flixel.com — A downloadable app for MacOS and iOS to create cinemagraphs (repeating videos that showcase movement in only part of the video, somewhat like a GIF). See an example at the bottom of this page. Cost: $199 per year.

Graffiti Creator: http://www.graffiticreator.net — Allows you to design any words in graffiti-style. Choose from several different font styles and cool tools to make any text look like fancy graffiti. For personal use only. Alexa: 110,422 in October 2017.

Know Your Meme: http://www.knowyourmeme.com — A website dedicated to documenting Internet phenomena: viral videos, image macros, catchphrases, web celebs and more. Allows you to explore new and popular memes. On some memes, they make it easy to create a new version of the meme yourself. Alexa: 1,881 in December 2016.

Logo Creator: http://www.Creatr.cc/creatr — This service allows you to create special logos like the one below. Alexa: 542,451 in February 2017.

Meme Creator exists to help users of the interwebs make memes online to express their creativity and ideas through images. You can select one of the existing funny meme templates on our site or upload one of your own to make a new meme. Meme’s often trend when they’re funny or have a message that people can relate to. Usually people generate memes to express their ideas, opinions or humor related to current events in the news and media whether on a local or international scale. It’s always important to share your memes on social networks, that way your idea can spread and be seen by the world.

Stripe Generator: http://www.stripegenerator.com — Allows you to make striped images for use as background tiles, frames, etc. You can also create a topical profile on the site. Alexa: 477,268 in February 2017.

The just for fun GIF on the right is from GIFbin . . .

Tartan Maker: http://www.tartanmaker.com — Allows you to create various tartan patterns in any color. Lots of flexibility. Alexa: 1,933,708 in February 2017.

Water Effect: http://www.watereffect.net — Allows you to create a water ripple mirror image of any graphic image. Alexa: 771,481 in February 2017.

We Know Memes: http://www.weknowmemes.com — They also feature viral memes, lists, videos, GIFs, and comics. Alexa: 49,435 in December 2016. They used to have a meme generator but it wasn’t working in December 2016.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park cinemagraph

About John Kremer

John Kremer is author of 1001 Ways to Market Your Books, the Relationships Matter Marketing program, and many other books and reports on book marketing, Internet marketing, social media, and book publicity. -- John Kremer on Book Marketing.